英语词汇great hulking man的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

great hulking man. Hulk has its origins in the ancient Greek holkas, “a trading vessel,” originally a towed ship, the word akin to the Greek helkein, “to drag,” because such ships were towed or dragged behind. The English word first meant a large sailing ship, then became the hull of a ship, and today means the body of an abandoned ship. Shakespeare was the first to record hulk as the synonym for a big unwieldy person and this comparison to a large unwieldy ship remains in the language today, both in the names of wrestlers (“The Hulk”) and other big people called hulks and the expression a great hulking man.

词汇	great hulking man
词源	great hulking man. Hulk has its origins in the ancient Greek holkas, “a trading vessel,” originally a towed ship, the word akin to the Greek helkein, “to drag,” because such ships were towed or dragged behind. The English word first meant a large sailing ship, then became the hull of a ship, and today means the body of an abandoned ship. Shakespeare was the first to record hulk as the synonym for a big unwieldy person and this comparison to a large unwieldy ship remains in the language today, both in the names of wrestlers (“The Hulk”) and other big people called hulks and the expression a great hulking man.
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